Some hymens are so strongly developed that they cannot be torn without considerable pain to the girl and marked loss of blood.

What she felt was a bone-deep loss with a sense of waste to it, not so much sorrow for handsome, ambitious Bobbie, but for the lost years that had been brought into high relief by his death.

Assuming no loss of time when moving a car from one station to another, the longest stage on the assembly line determines the throughput ( 20 minutes for the engine installation ) so a car can be produced every 20 minutes, once the first car taking 35 minutes has been produced.

The army reforms were not yet completed by the war of 1809, in which Charles acted as commander in chief, yet even so it proved a far more formidable opponent than the old and was only defeated after a desperate struggle involving Austrian victories and large loss of life on both sides.

The day-to-day risks are generally small because the transactions involve small differences in price, so an execution failure will generally cause a small loss ( unless the trade is very big or the price moves rapidly ).

In more efficient amplifiers there is less loss of energy so in turn less heat.

This behavior is so puzzling that it has been called the black hole information loss paradox.

Ivinskaya later recalled, " But I became so ill through loss of blood that she and Luisa had to get me to the hospital, and I not longer remember exactly what passed between me and this heavily built, strong-minded woman, who kept repeating how she didn't give a damn for our love and that, although she no longer loved Leonidovich herself, she would not allow her family to be broken up.

If your side has two aces and a void, then you are not at risk of losing the first two tricks, so long as ( a ) your void is useful ( i. e., does not duplicate the function of an ace that your side holds ) and ( b ) you are not vulnerable to the loss of the first two tricks in the fourth suit ( because, for instance, one of the partnership hands holds a singleton in that suit or the protected king, giving your side second round control ).

It seems impossible that the shattered Roman legions proclaimed emperor a traitor who was responsible for the loss of so many soldiers from their ranks.

This heat loss through the glass keeps the internal bulb temperature steady so that the two sides of the vanes can develop a temperature difference.

In Scotland, the berries were originally wild-harvested but with the loss of suitable habitat, the plants have become so scarce that this is no longer done.

For example, extra costs, repair or replacement of damaged property, lost earnings ( both historically and in the future ), loss of irreplaceable items, additional domestic costs, and so on.

Voicing ideas such as " it's just one burger " during and after weight loss regimes is discouraged, and often is said on the part of an insecure individual who has reached the unfortunate conclusion that nothing can be done any longer and that any effort to do so is futile.

" In the hierarchy of nubbiedom, the supremely rewarding self-sacrifice was the loss of a right leg and a left arm, because, so the theory went, ' afterward, you could still write your name and still have a foot to press the gas pedal of your Cadillac.

The Erlang B formula applies to loss systems, such as telephone systems on both fixed and mobile networks, which do not provide traffic buffering, and are not intended to do so.

As a result, most investors will not commit to financing a film unless an insurer can be found to protect them against the risk that the film ultimately cannot be released as a result of a total catastrophe such as total loss of film negatives ( or digital media ), death of the Director or Stars during production, natural disasters destroying the sets, and so on.

In some cases mineral replacement of the original shell occurs so gradually and at such fine scales that microstructural features are preserved despite the total loss of original material.

The opposing linebacker wants to predict the snap, and build up speed such that he crosses the line of scrimmage exactly as the play begins, so as to increase his chances of getting a tackle for a loss, or a sack.

Unlike the losses that had been suffered by Minucius, a major loss by Varro had the potential to kill so many soldiers that Rome might have had no further resources with which to continue the war.

He did so without loss of life or materiel.

The radiation environment near Io in particular was very unhealthy for Galileos systems, and so these flybys were saved for the extended mission when loss of the spacecraft would be more acceptable.

Richard's younger brother John, who succeeded him, was not so fortunate ; he suffered the loss of Normandy and numerous other French territories following the disastrous Battle of Bouvines.

The purchasing power of the currency drops so rapidly that holding cash for even a day is an unacceptable loss of purchasing power.

... using hypnosis, scientists have temporarily created hallucinations, compulsions, certain types of memory loss, false memories, and delusions in the laboratory so that these phenomena can be studied in a controlled environment.

This algorithm is much less prone to loss of precision due to massive cancellation, but might not be as efficient because of the division operation inside the loop.

Harper summarizes as follows: " the act of committing sin is not in itself ground for the loss of salvation ... the loss of salvation is much more related to experiences that are profound and prolonged.

* The single verse, 2 Samuel 18: 33, regarding David's grief at the loss of his son (" And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom!

The most serious consequence of this battle was not the loss of their possessions in Gaul to the Franks ; with Ostrogothic help, much of the Gallic territory was recovered, Herwig Wolfram notes, perhaps as far as Toulouse.

Although such a conversion can be prone to loss, most modern audio systems use this approach as the techniques of digital signal processing are much more powerful and efficient than analog domain signal processing.

Rebinding efforts, though saving the manuscript from much degeneration, have nonetheless covered up other letters of the poem, causing further loss.

This, combined with considerable Conservative grassroots disquiet over the Club's links to the National Front, persuaded some Conservative voters to switch to Taverne in protest as much as tactically to ensure Labour suffered an embarrassing loss.

If a mutual is large, or is expected to grow if it can raise capital by a conversion, its managers derive more value from a conversion but do not suffer much loss of perks than if the bank were small.

As the number of rounds increases, the expected loss increases at a much faster rate.

This can result in rapid weight loss, or occasionally in weight gain, if the patient eats too much in an effort to allay nausea or heartburn.

In contrast, lossy compression ( for example JPEG, or MP3 ) can achieve much higher compression ratios at the cost of a decrease in quality, as visual or audio compression artifacts from loss of important information are introduced.

This agreement on these border sections delineated for Afghanistan a permanent northern frontier at the Amu Darya but also the loss of much territory, especially around Panjdeh.

For example, in the Great Plains, it is estimated that wind erosion soil loss can be as much as 6100 times greater in drought years, than in wet years.

Madero sold off much of his property – often at a considerable loss – in order to finance anti-re-election activities throughout Mexico.

A complete loss of ice on Greenland would cause a sea level rise of as much as.

However, the " Time of Troubles " provoked by the dynastic crisis resulted in the loss of much territory to the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Russo-Polish war, as well as to the Swedish Empire in the Ingrian War.

Rating for different risk characteristics involves at the most basic level comparing the losses with " loss relativities "-a policy with twice as many losses would therefore be charged twice as much.

Similar forms of African socialism were introduced inter alia in Ghana by Kwame Nkrumah (" Consciencism ") and Tanzania by Julius Nyerere (" Ujamaa "), while in Zaire, President Mobutu Sese Seko, a much less " benevolent " ruler than Kaunda or Nyerere, was at a loss until he hit on the ideal ideology – ' Mobutuism '.

There was much devastation and population loss throughout the GDL in the mid and late 17th century, including the ethnic Lithuanian population in Vilnius voivodeship.

Saint Thomas Aquinas described the Limbo of Infants as an eternal state of natural joy, untempered by any sense of loss at how much greater their joy might have been had they been baptized.

Sometimes the ideal is a file that provides exactly the same perception as the original, with as much digital information as possible removed ; other times, perceptible loss of quality is considered a valid trade-off for the reduced data

Anytime I do a movie or a TV show, I make them aware of my hearing loss at the beginning, and that makes it much easier for all of us to communicate and get the job done.

With the loss of the natural vegetation, the balance in runoff nutrients to the reef was disturbed, eventually causing as much as 80 percent of the large eastern fringing reef to become inactive.